diff --git a/src/main/java/com/cloudera/hadoop/HadoopFile.java b/src/main/java/com/cloudera/hadoop/HadoopFile.java
index fbf1a88..a616931 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/cloudera/hadoop/HadoopFile.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/cloudera/hadoop/HadoopFile.java
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ public HadoopFile(String file, Configuration configuration) {
         this.configuration = configuration;
     }
 
-    public void inspect() throws IOException {
+    public String inspect() throws IOException {
         FileSystem fileSystem = FileSystem.get(configuration);
         Path filePath = new Path(file);
         FSDataInputStream is = fileSystem.open(filePath);
@@ -46,12 +46,11 @@ public void inspect() throws IOException {
             for (Detector detector : REGISTERED_DETECTORS) {
                 if (detector.detect(header, read)) {
                     PathData pd = new PathData(file, configuration);
-                    System.out.println(file + ": " + detector.analyze(pd, ""));
-                    return;
+                    return(file + ": " + detector.analyze(pd, ""));
                 }
             }
 
-            System.out.println(file + ": octet-stream");
+            return (file + ": octet-stream");
         }
         finally {
             is.close();
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ public void inspect() throws IOException {
 
     @Override
     public int run(String[] strings) throws Exception {
-        inspect();
+        System.out.println(inspect());
         return 0;
     }
 
@@ -75,4 +74,4 @@ public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         hadoopFile.run(args);
     }
 
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/cloudera/hadoop/HadoopFileTest.java b/src/test/java/com/cloudera/hadoop/HadoopFileTest.java
index 77ea7a5..3a65f62 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/cloudera/hadoop/HadoopFileTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/cloudera/hadoop/HadoopFileTest.java
@@ -25,31 +25,31 @@ public void testTextFile() {
     @Test
     public void testParquetFile() throws IOException {
         HadoopFile hadoopFile = new HadoopFile("src/test/resources/testparq.parq", configuration);
-        hadoopFile.inspect();
+        String result = hadoopFile.inspect();
     }
 
     @Test
     public void testAvroFile() throws IOException  {
         HadoopFile hadoopFile = new HadoopFile("src/test/resources/testavro.avro", configuration);
-        hadoopFile.inspect();
+        String result = hadoopFile.inspect();
     }
 
     @Test
     public void testSeqFile() throws IOException {
         HadoopFile hadoopFile = new HadoopFile("src/test/resources/testseq.seq", configuration);
-        hadoopFile.inspect();
+        String result = hadoopFile.inspect();
     }
 
     @Test
     public void testRCFile() throws IOException {
         HadoopFile hadoopFile = new HadoopFile("src/test/resources/testrcfile.rcf", configuration);
-        hadoopFile.inspect();
+        String result = hadoopFile.inspect();
     }
 
     @Test
     public void testORCFile() throws IOException {
         HadoopFile hadoopFile = new HadoopFile("src/test/resources/testorc.orc", configuration);
-        hadoopFile.inspect();
+        String result = hadoopFile.inspect();
     }
 
 }